TY - JOUR A1 - Brüggmann, Daniel T1 - Women’s employment, income and divorce in West Germany: a causal approach JF - Journal for Labour Market Research N2 - In this paper, I assess the employment and income effect of divorce for women in West Germany between 2000 and 2005. With newly available administrative data that allows me to adopt a causal approach, I find strong negative employment effects with respect to marginal employment and strong positive effects with respect to regular employment. However, in sum, the overall employment rate (marginal and regular employment combined) is not affected. Furthermore, the lower the labor market attachment before separation is, the more pronounced employment effects are. In addition, I also estimate the impact of divorce on daily gross incomes. I find no convincing evidence for an income effect. I conclude that a divorce might have a pure labor supply effect only. KW - Divorce KW - Female employment KW - Propensity score matching KW - Difference-in-difference KW - Boosted regression Y1 - 2020 SN - 2510-5027 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12651-020-00270-0 VL - 54 IS - 5 ER -